Avalon Eidolon matching speaker cables and IC

Jockscott,

I owned a pair of Eidolons for over 8 years, and found they rewarded you for using high performance cables (fabulous speakers, by the way). The best pairing I found - hands down - was Siltech The Emperor. However, I understand that may be a bit on the expensive side. I also had success with Purist Dominus and Kubala Emotion. At a more bargain price, I would recommend Wywires.

I would not use them with Cardas cables; for example, I tried Golden Reference and was very disappointed with the plummy bass and softened dynamics. In fact, I would not recommend them with any of the cable brands you listed (unless you would spring for Nordost Odin).

Finally, regarding demos, there is always the Cable Company (http://www.thecableco.com/), who for a reasonable fee will ship out multiple cables for you to demo.

Best of luck.

Thanks for ansers, i accidentaly added two threads of same type, sorry.

I live in sweden, and not in any big city so borrow and testing in my home is very difficult. I have to go on what i read, by the most i do a lot of research before buying and most of times im happy.

Somewhere i read Avalon uses Cardas on demos, but i also read some pepole have the same opinion about Cardas as Rzado above.
Audioquest did i read some recommend, and Nordost is fine cables. i would think Odin would be great but way out of budget for me. When i did have some transistor Class A monoblock the sound was very sweet, not to muddy but warm and sweet, but since i changed to Class D the sound have been thinner, more neutral, Nordost might be to much?! I uses mostly Copper cables but i think some silvercables could be a good match.

What is your budget for cables, speaker wires?/

Nyaudio98: Well, the budget is not unlimited. But the question i made is to see what users of Avalon speakers have. I will probably not go on top model of any brand, but if some says some brand worked better or worse i can collect the information and see what model fits my budget. Well known of that any model of any brand can be completely different match for my speakers. But a hint, say somewhere about 2000$ for a speaker pair. New or used...

I have used a number of cables with Eidelon's. Purist, FIM, Virtual, High Fidelity, and now HiDiamond. They have all performed quite well, although component dependent. I wish to point out the speaker cable is merely one piece of the "system". Besides the major components, power cords, isolation, ic's, room treatment, etc. have all contributed to creating the music the Avalons are producing. I do have a tube/analog based system; therefore, my suggestions may not be fitting.